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Grafted Arts - Art Making and Taking in the Struggle for Western India, 1760-1910 (Hardcover)
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Grafted Arts - Art Making and Taking in the Struggle for Western India, 1760-1910 (Hardcover)
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Conceptualizes "graft"- the violent and creative processes of
suturing arts as a method of empire building in western
eighteenth-century India Grafted Arts focuses on Maratha military
rulers and British East India Company officials who used the arts
to engage in diplomacy, wage war, compete for prestige, and
generate devotion as they allied with (or fought against) each
other to control western India in the eighteenth century. This book
conceptualizes the artistic combinations that resulted as ones of
"graft"-a term that acknowledges the violent and creative processes
of suturing arts, and losing and gaining goods, as well as the
shifting dynamics among agents who assembled such materials. By
tracing grafted arts from multiple perspectives-Maratha and
British, artist and patron, soldier and collector-this book charts
the methods of empire-building that recast artistic production and
collection in western India and from there across India and in
Britain. This mercenary method of artistry propagated mixed,
fractured, and plundered arts. Indeed, these "grafted
arts"-disseminated across India and Britain over the nineteenth
century to aid in consolidating empire or revolting against it
entirely-remain instigators of nationalist agitation today.
Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
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